Some EU Regulators Still Don’t Get Internet Economics

While the EU's new data protection rules present a threat to the European digital economy, recent actions by regulators in some member states remind us why EU-wide rules still cannot come soon enough. As the Center for Data Innovation’s Nick Wallace and Daniel Castro write in the EU Observer, the EU needs national lawmakers and regulators to commit to reasonable and consistent rules for targeted online advertising if it is serious about both building a digital single market and becoming a hub for the Internet economy.